Ken Bousfield
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Personal information | |
Full name | Kenneth Bousfield |
Born | (1919-10-02)2 October 1919 Marston Moor, Yorkshire |
Died | 25 May 2000(2000-05-25) (aged 80) |
Sporting nationality | England |
Career | |
Turned professional | 1938 |
Former tour(s) | European Tour |
Professional wins | 19 |
Best results in major championships | |
Masters Tournament | DNP |
PGA Championship | DNP |
U.S. Open | DNP |
The Open Championship | T5: 1955 |
Kenneth Bousfield (2 October 1919 – 25 May 2000[1]) was one of the leading British golfers of the immediate post-World War II period.[2]
Bousfield won a number of tournaments on the European circuit in the 1950s and 1960s, including the British PGA Championship, which is the second most prestigious tournament in the United Kingdom after The Open Championship. He had two top ten finishes at The Open Championship, finishing in a tie for fifth in 1955 and a tie for eighth in 1961. He was past his peak by the time the formal European Tour was formed in 1972, but he played on it until 1976. He played for Great Britain in the Ryder Cup six times (1949, 1951, 1955, 1957, 1959, 1961) and had a 5-5-0 win–loss–draw record.
Professional wins (19)
Regular wins (18)
- This list is probably incomplete.
- 1951 Southern Professional Championship, News Chronicle Tournament
- 1955 British PGA Championship, News of the World Match Play, German Open
- 1956 Yorkshire Evening News Tournament (tie with Dai Rees)
- 1957 Dunlop Tournament, Southern Professional Championship
- 1958 Belgian Open, Swiss Open
- 1959 Sprite Tournament, German Open
- 1960 Portuguese Open
- 1961 Portuguese Open, Swallow-Penfold Tournament
- 1964 Ryder Cup Reunion Foursomes Tournament (with Alex Caygill),[3] Gleneagles Hotel Foursomes Tournament (with Keith Warren)
Senior wins (1)
Results in major championships
Tournament | 1947 | 1948 | 1949 |
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The Open Championship | T27 | T21 | T11 |
Tournament | 1950 | 1951 | 1952 | 1953 | 1954 | 1955 | 1956 | 1957 | 1958 | 1959 |
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The Open Championship | CUT | CUT | T21 | T34 | T5 | T22 | T35 | T11 |
Tournament | 1960 | 1961 | 1962 | 1963 | 1964 | 1965 | 1966 | 1967 | 1968 | 1969 |
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The Open Championship | T21 | T8 | CUT | T30 | CUT | CUT | 54 |
Tournament | 1970 | 1971 | 1972 |
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The Open Championship | CUT |
Note: Bousfield only played in The Open Championship.
CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" indicates a tie for a place
Team appearances
- Ryder Cup (representing Great Britain): 1949, 1951, 1955, 1957 (winners), 1959, 1961
- Canada Cup (representing England): 1956, 1957
- Joy Cup (representing the British Isles): 1955 (winners), 1958 (winners)
- Amateurs–Professionals Match (representing the Professionals): 1957 (winners), 1958, 1959 (winners), 1960 (winners)
References
- ^ "Ken Bousfield - Winner of 19 professional golf championships in six years" The Times, 2 June 2000.
- ^ Alliss, Peter (1983). The Who's Who of Golf. Orbis Publishing. p. 213. ISBN 0-85613-520-8.
- ^ "Bousfield and Caygill win by two strokes". The Guardian. 14 September 1964. p. 14 – via Newspapers.com.
External links
- Ken Bousfield at the European Tour official site
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- 1955 Ken Bousfield
- 1956 Charlie Ward†
- 1957 Peter Alliss
- 1958 Harry Bradshaw
- 1959 Dai Rees
- 1960 Arnold Stickley
- 1961 Brian Bamford
- 1962 Peter Alliss
- 1963 Peter Butler
- 1964 Tony Grubb
- 1965 Peter Alliss†
- 1966 Guy Wolstenholme
- 1967 Brian Huggett
- 1968 Peter Townsend
- 1967 Malcolm Gregson
- 1968 David Talbot
- 1969 Bernard Gallacher
- 1972 Tony Jacklin
- 1973 Peter Oosterhuis
- 1974 Maurice Bembridge
- 1975 Arnold Palmer
- 1976 Neil Coles†
- 1977 Manuel Piñero
- 1978 Nick Faldo
- 1979 Vicente Fernández
- 1980 Nick Faldo
- 1981 Nick Faldo
- 1982 Tony Jacklin†
- 1983 Seve Ballesteros
- 1984 Howard Clark
- 1985 Paul Way†
- 1986 Rodger Davis†
- 1987 Bernhard Langer
- 1988 Ian Woosnam
- 1989 Nick Faldo
- 1990 Mike Harwood
- 1991 Seve Ballesteros†
- 1992 Tony Johnstone
- 1993 Bernhard Langer
- 1994 José María Olazábal
- 1995 Bernhard Langer
- 1996 Costantino Rocca
- 1997 Ian Woosnam
- 1998 Colin Montgomerie
- 1999 Colin Montgomerie
- 2000 Colin Montgomerie
- 2001 Andrew Oldcorn
- 2002 Anders Hansen
- 2003 Ignacio Garrido†
- 2004 Scott Drummond
- 2005 Ángel Cabrera
- 2006 David Howell
- 2007 Anders Hansen†
- 2008 Miguel Ángel Jiménez†
- 2009 Paul Casey
- 2010 Simon Khan
- 2011 Luke Donald†
- 2012 Luke Donald
- 2013 Matteo Manassero†
- 2014 Rory McIlroy
- 2015 An Byeong-hun
- 2016 Chris Wood
- 2017 Alex Norén
- 2018 Francesco Molinari
- 2019 Danny Willett
- 2020 Tyrrell Hatton
- 2021 Billy Horschel
- 2022 Shane Lowry
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